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Tom Cruise and his super-spy friends may have met their match in the first trailer for "Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation," the fifth installment of the $2-billion franchise. Set for release July 31 from Paramount Pictures, "Rogue Nation" finds Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Ving Rames and Simon Pegg reprising their roles as Impossible Missions Force agents, and this time they're taking on a very skilled, shadowy terrorist organization. As a desperate Ethan Hunt (Cruise) tells team member Benji (Pegg), "The Syndicate is real! A rogue nation, trained to do what we do." "An anti-IMF," Benji replies. The IMF gang will also have to deal with Washington...

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Tom Cruise and his super-spy friends may have met their match in the first trailer for "Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation," the fifth installment of the $2-billion franchise.
Set for release July 31 from Paramount Pictures, "Rogue...

"Star Trek 3" didn't have to voyage to strange new worlds to find its writers. Simon Pegg, the English actor who plays Scotty in the rebooted sci-fi franchise, has been enlisted to co-write the script for the third installment with Doug Jung,...

The new film "The Boxtrolls" is the latest from stop-motion animation company Laika and continues the off-beat tales from their earlier "Coraline" and "ParaNorman." Adapted from Alan Snow's book, "Here Be Monsters,"...

"The Boxtrolls" is the latest production from Laika, the company that made the films "Coraline" and "ParaNorman," which were both nominated for the Academy Award for best animated feature.
Again using the stop-motion...

At 44, Simon Pegg thinks he's finally found happiness. The "Star Trek" and "Mission: Impossible" actor has that particular achievement on his mind recently, thanks to his new film, "Hector and the Search for Happiness." The...

September is full of bookish film adaptations, with movies made from kids books, an international bestseller, a bestselling mystery and a couple of heart-stopping YA thrillers, of course. Here's what's in theaters, and what's coming soon.
Things are...

Many intriguing unlovelies are found in "The Boxtrolls," a new 3-D animated fable that lifts liberally from the sketches and dark sensibility of Alan Snow's creepy-good children's novel "Here Be Monsters."
A rich voice cast adds...

In the British dance-off rom-com "Cuban Fury," Nick Frost plays a man who was a champion salsa dancer as a young boy who gave it up. Now an adult office drone, when a new boss arrives from America in the form of Rashida Jones, he is smitten....

The 2014 Fall Movie Preview is a broad snapshot of films opening through Oct. 31. Release dates and other details, as compiled here by Oliver Gettell, are subject to change.
Sept. 10
My Old Lady
A down-on-his-luck New Yorker inherits a Parisian...

In "Hector and the Search for Happiness," a bedtime story for the eternal man-child, Simon Pegg plays a psychiatrist who lives in a world of WASP male privilege yet remains dissatisfied with his existence.
Hector's premature bout of midlife...

The five Academy Award nominees for animated short film this year split up into two disparate groups: happy meal and white tablecloth.
Originally shown with the Disney feature film "Frozen," "Get a Horse!" is the best known and most...